#highly recommend typing in some classic monsters from literature and film into google scholar

[deanu]

Hello, you reblogged the monsterfucker post and put in the tags that you could explain this phenomenon with actual sources? I would be HIGHLY INTERESTED IN THIS if you ever feel like giving this lecture 😄 have a good day!

mmmm I really, really could go on all day, but also I don't want to publish too much of a polished rant for students to get their grubby little plagarism hands on my writing but I will give you this: The monster is treated as an othered individual in media. King Kong can easily allude to early and modern black racism and experience (David N Rosen 1975 and Gail Dines 1998). Dracula carries themes of xenophobia, as Harker and the other characters do not want London to be contaminated by Dracula's foreign ideals and representation. And, of course, easily recognizable modern media from Del Toro who has come out to say things like "monsters, I believe, are the patron saints of our blissful imperfection" (Golden globes, 2018). We relate to the monster in some fashion. Most people have felt outcast, bullied, shunned, because of who they are, how they act, or what they believe in and it is in those experiences where they come to understand and empathize with The Monster and their isolated experience. And it is that bond that allows for the genre to bend from horror to romance